Kurt von der Chevallerie

Kurt von der Chevallerie (23 December 1891-18 April 1945) was a General der Infanterie of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Kurt von der Chevallerie was born on 23 December 1891 in Berlin, Prussia, German Empire. He enlisted in the Reichswehr in 1910 and served in World War I, winning the Iron Cross in 1914; by the war's end in 1918, he was a captain. In 1933 he became a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Wehrmacht and continued to rise in the ranks, and in 1939 he became a Major-General and commander of the German 83rd Infantry Division. He saw action in the Battle of France, Operation Barbarossa, and other Great Patriotic War battles, and in late 1942 he was defeated at the Battle of Velikiye Luki by the Red Army. On 31 January 1945 he retired from the army, and he went missing at Kolberg on 18 April 1945.